The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia
Smith Collection.

This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be difficult to use.

Restrictions on use:

Copyright for Joan and Peggy Murray's papers is unknown. Copyright to other materials may be owned by the creators, or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

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Biographical Note

Florence Margaret (Peggy) Toaps Murray was born in Ottawa (date unknown). She toured Canada and England as a "diseuse" ("The Canadian [Yvette] Guilbert"), doing readings in accents, singing, etc. She took up painting at age 52, and at some point moved to Easthampton, Massachusetts. Her date of death is presently unknown. Her daughter, Joan Vincent Murray was born in London on 12 February 1917 during a World War I air raid. She spent her early childhood in England, and later attended schools in London, Paris, Ontario, and Detroit. Rheumatic fever injured her heart, and she was largely self-educated thereafter. She studied acting at several New York City schools and appeared in semi- professional plays. Her poems attracted the attention of W.H. Auden, who wrote the forward to one of her book of poems, published in 1947. She died of an infection in Saranac Lake, NY on 4 January 1942.

The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia
Smith Collection.

This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be difficult to use.

Restrictions on use:

Copyright for Joan and Peggy Murray's papers is unknown. Copyright to other materials may be owned by the creators, or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

History of the Isle of Mull,the Hebrides and the history of the Mac or McLeans

Box
6

The St Laurence

Box 6: folder 1

Sketches on my life for BBC

Box 6: folder 2

The poetry of the unicorn and specters, etc

Box 6: folder 3

Scripts

Box 6: folder 4-6

Poetry

Box 6: folder 7

Miscellaneous poetry, scripts, programs, printed material

Box 6: folder 8

L.Baindridge Crist: songs

Box 6: folder 9

Seventeen wives

Box 6: folder 10

Printed material

Box 6: folder 11

The French Visitor

Box 6: folder 12

Family opposition to marriage

Box 6: folder 13

Miscellaneous printed material and poetry

Box 6: folder 14

Proposal in ... ?

Box 6: folder 15

Sister's marriage

Box 6: folder 16

The telephone call

Box 6: folder 17

Duplicates

Box 6: folder 18

The Spirit of the Brush translated by Shio Sakanishi

Box
6

Little Books on Art: Holbein edited by Cyril Davenport

Box
6

2 loose photographs

Box
6

Manilla envelope of poetry

Box
6

Diaries,

1928, undated

Box
7

Charles Dickens by Julian Symons

Box
7

Margot Fonteyn by Gordon Anthony

Box
7

A Confucian Notebook by Edward Herbert

Box
7

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

Box
7

Poetry

Box 7: folder 1

Siklianos by Grant Code

Box 7: folder 2

Photographs

Box 7: folder 3

Cadenza (poetry, scripts, notes)

Box 7: folder 4

Plays and poetry

Box 7: folder 5

Poetry, notes, misc. photographs

Box 7: folder 6

Photographs and notes

Box 7: folder 7

"History of the Isle of Mull" (2 notebooks)

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Words, ideas, sketches for "A New Musical Comedy..."

Box
7

Notes (blue notebook) may be part of above??

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7

Manilla envelope of correspondence to Peggy Murray

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7

Aristotle On Poetry and Music

Box
7

Peggy Murray's "bits and pieces"

Box
7

Miscellaneous photographs

Box
7

Oversized Materials

"The World's Need, A Play of Light"

Drawings, poetry

Box
7

Photographs

Box
7

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